WAR

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  1. Baseball Organizational Replacement Value

    As Vince Genarro wrote seven years ago , "A team’s location on the win-curve—their absolute level of wins—has a dramatic impact on the value of a win." Every year, we draw a line for replacement level at each position,…

  2. Of Win Shares and WAR

    Does it mean anything if WAR does not align with Win Shares? Working on a project for another site, had me doing an analysis of Orel Hershiser , Bret Saberhagen , and Steve Garvey . avWAR * Bret Saberhagen 59 (4.6 per…

  3. Hunter Pence and the RBI

    Entering the 2012 campaign, Hunter Pence had been around a 3 to 5 Wins Above Replacement guy, throughout his five year career. This season, Hunter Pence combined career lows in Batting Average, On Base and Slugging…

  4. Strange Findings in WAR

    While calculating the average Wins Above Replacement scores as research for our upcoming AL MVP race post, we stumbled across a peculiar comparison between Boston's ace, Josh Beckett , and former Boston pitcher, Justin…

  5. 2011 National League MVP Race

    So far this season, I haven't read an article discussing NL MVP candidates, but I've heard chatter for Matt Kemp , Justin Upton , Troy Tulowitzki , Reyes, McCutchen, defending winner Votto, and... I guess that's about…

  6. Sizing Up the AL Playoffs, Part II

    We're taking this one step at a time. In Part I of this series, we broke down the first steps towards constructing a recipe to see which teams will perform better in the relative crapshoot that is baseball's postseason.…

  7. WAR Memo on Belated Labor Day

    Happy Belated Labor Day, everyone!!! We'll get back to actual posts hopefully later today. Falling off the wagon does not affect WAR In the meantime, I wanted to inform you that until further notice, whenever we cite…

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